Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
A New Day for Independet Agents
Jun 9 2003 // I put the low point of prospects for independent agency success somewhere in mid-1997. We were in the worst of the soft market. Its impact on agency finances was devastating. Insurance companies were experimenting...
Joycette Casella Joins Western Security Surplus Brokers
Jun 6 2003 // Pasadena-based Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. announced that Joycette A. Casella has joined as a broker. Casella will be responsible for producing new business opportunities in the commercial property and...
Afni Services Delivers 24/7 Service to DORIS Customers
Jun 2 2003 // DORIS Insurance Systems and Afni Insurance Services have formed a partnership to deliver 24/7 service capabilities to DORIS customers. DORIS selected CSR24 from Afni Insurance Services as its 24/7 service and is making it...
The Hartford Group Offers Workers’ Comp Real-Time Quotes
May 30 2003 // Agents doing business with The Hartford Financial Services Group now can quote and request issuance of small commercial workers’ compensation business in real-time directly from their agency management system using...
PIANJ Honors Gerry Wilson as Company Person of the Year
May 30 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. also announced that Gerry Wilson, president and CEO of Palisades Safety and Insurance Management Corporation, will receive the “Company Person of the Year”...
CNA Provides Big Opportunity for Small Business
May 30 2003 // Chicago-based CNA says it is creating opportunities for agents in Small Business with its people, services, technology, broad appetite, underwriting excellence, comprehensive products and programs, and targeted classes for...
Chubb, NLC and Progressive Top PIACT Company Survey
May 29 2003 // Three of last year’s top five companies, Chubb Group, NLC Insurance Cos. and Progressive, were again ranked among the top five performers in the second company performance survey conducted by the Professional...
Oklahoma Agent Loses License
May 29 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced he revoked the license of a Bartlesville agent accused of lying clients to cover up the fact that he was unable to find coverage for them, as well as taking cash...
IIABA Applauds Enactment of Tax Relief Bill
May 29 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) is hailing Wednesday’s enactment by President Bush of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, which reportedly provides independent agents...
Former Farmers Agent Charged with Grand Theft and Elder Abuse
May 28 2003 // Patrick James Murphy, 45, of Norco, pled no contest in Los Angeles Superior Court, on May 15, to 39 felony counts, including grand theft and elder abuse. Superior Court Judge David Horwitz sentenced Murphy to four years in...
Fair Isaac Releases XML Manager For Insurance Version 2.1
May 28 2003 // Fair Isaac Corporation announced availability of XML Manager For Insurance version 2.1, based on Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor rules management technology. The new release supports the 1.2 release of the ACORD SPX standard and...
Zurich NA Makes Customer Billing Information Available Online
May 28 2003 // Zurich North America Small Business announced a new Direct Bill Web site on zurichna.com. The new site gives agents and brokers direct online access to their customers’ billing information, including the status,...
Survey Reveals Agents Seek Cos. with Full Capabilities for Protecting Technology Customers
May 28 2003 // The ability of an insurance company to “fully service the insurance needs of information technology companies” is of paramount importance to agents that target this business sector, according to a survey...
L.A. Broker Charged with Grand Theft
May 27 2003 // The Los Angeles City Attorney filed three counts of grand theft against Arshak (Mike) Rostomyan, 27, of Glendale, Calif. for allegedly defrauding consumers by selling bogus insurance policies. According to the California...
E.G. Bowman, NY’s Largest Minority and Woman-Owned Insurance Brokerage, Celebrates 50th Anniversary
May 27 2003 // This month marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of E.G. Bowman Company, Inc. by Ernesta G. Procope, who set up her storefront insurance agency in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in 1953. The...
Former Calif. Agent Sentenced to Four Years for Grand Theft, Elder Abuse
May 27 2003 // Patrick James Murphy, 45, of Norco, pled no contest in Los Angeles Superior Court, recently, to 39 felony counts, including grand theft and elder abuse. Superior Court Judge David Horwitz sentenced Murphy to four years in...
Fourteen Arrested for Insurance Fraud in L.A. Sweep
May 23 2003 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Los Angeles County Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force arrested 14 people, including two insurance brokers, suspected of defrauding three insurance carriers in a criminal...
The Hartford’s BMG Agency Survey Finds Employee Shortage Driving Compensation, Education
May 23 2003 // While the rest of the economy struggles with worker layoffs, independent insurance agencies are reportedly facing a very different problem: filling their jobs with knowledgeable workers. As a result, more firms facing a...
Penn National Partners with Rackley Systems to Provide Agents Web-delivered Rating; Sponsors Harrisburg Youth Program
May 23 2003 // Leading PA P/C insurer Penn National Insurance announced that it has made a partnership agreement with Rackley Systems, Inc., to bring its agents “a state-of-the-art .NET Web rating tool.” It also announced a...
Ohio Commish Orders Unlicensed Insurers to Stop Doing Business
May 23 2003 // Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin ordered International Water Marine Safety Foundation and North American Marine General Insurance Co. to stop writing insurance policies in Ohio. The property and casualty insurers...
